San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1887-06-22
A WOMAN'S OPINION.
Temperance, But Anti-Prohibition -
Scripture View of It-Words Wise
ly Spoken TO Chris tlans.

ly Spoken TO Chris tIans.
TAYLOR, Williamson Co., June 20.
DAILY LIGHT.
| am aware that | walk on ground
where angels dare not tread, but when
the recording angel turns over the pages
of my life to transfer the items to the
ledger of eternity this is one act Of mine
that | will never wish erased or blOtted
out. The first consultation that we
read of was when the Almighty said:
Let us make man. Come now let us
reason together" Let US consult, as the
God who throws worlds into existence
had a consultation. Let us initiate the
God we worship. Do not be as the fan
atics Of France, who have repeatedly
deluged the streets with human gore,
but reasOn-Dray to God for wisdom, as
Solomon, the wisest man, did, and do
not, when you pray, say, Not thy
will, but mine, be done Search the
Scriptures. Paddle not in the stream,
but go TO the fountain, before you
wreck future Empire.
From Genesis to Matthew, including
the Ten Commandments, The first
code of laws on record, | see nothing In
favor of prob bition, but against It,.
Wine for the table has been from the
earliest date. The Jews TO this day
train their families to drink Yet we
never see an intoxicated Jew. Only ole
for years has been in the pOOr-hUuse.
Either ignore the Scriptures; throw it
out as a fable or take it rs your rule
and guide.
How did We come to the new dispen-
satiOn?
The wisest and best men of the past
were not prohibitionist.
Our Savior was not Il prOhiDitiOnist.
The first miracle of our Savior, the
marriage in Cana of Gallilee, Jesus and
his disciples were invited guests. a
woman, the mother OF Our Lord, says ::
They have no wine" This was the
mother to her son. Three
years before his cruciixiOn, know
ing this, she goes TO him for wine,
and what was tie result. 1.-The modest
water awed by Power Divine beheld its
God and blushed itself to wine" Draw
out now and bear to the governor OF the
feast. The verdict was they had drank
but this was the best wine.
Who made this wine and who gave
this command?
1t was the one whom the wise men
not to Jerusalem nor a palace. but to Il
small town, to a stable, TO II manager; one
who raised the dead, at whose cruel
f1xion the vale of the temple was rent
from the top to the very bottom and the
dead came from their graves; one of the
Triune God that | worship.
St. Paul said, take little wine for
thy stOmach's sake" After years of toll
in the cause of the Master. bent and
crippled, to his executions IA they
looked down into his dungeon, lie said,
''my time has come: am
ready to be delivered" The
whole Bible is against prohibition.
Ii is not nOw-SOme baby fell into q
mash tub, but this glorious republic
trembles; it trembes to its foundation,
which WAS laid in tears, and the blood
| of heroes, not yours or mine. We did
not fire gun at San Jacint". When
this generation is under the ground,
Texas will feel the blow. She will find
out her mistake and will envy the
prosperity and success of other states,
who have let this greatest of fanatieai
tanaticismS alone. Good people OF
Texas come to a brattIe of more inter
| est to the future OF IeXas, than was
San JaCntiO. Anti-prohibiLiOnist come,
let is not be said of Texas, AS was once
said OF Napoleon.
Is this the man of thousand thrones?
Since he, mIscalled the morning star,
neither man nor fiend hath fallen SO far.
| The power behind the throne is often
| greater than the throne. Already the
| tide OF emigration is turning towards
| Texas, and they are setting out for this
FL Dorado of thrift and enterprise.
Beer and wine to some of these
natiOnalities is the staff of
life, as necessary to them as bread and
| milk, tea and coffee to the Prohibition.
| This fanaticism will turn this class to
other states where they Will have be-
| queathed to them untrammeled in this
respect the freedom they had in Europe,
where from dcspOtiRm they fled as they
| thought TO Il land of freedom.
1t is not IL the power of prohibition to
| prohibit. The wealth of California is
| not its gold, but wines and Orandies.
California as well as other states, will
be increased in this revcuue, while
| Texas, instead OF being thu producer.
will draw from these states and the In
come which should have been here will
| be squandered like ESaus' hirth-right.
| Texas will be an unhealthy state and
will be flooded by a low class of physi-
clans and druggists. Their is drOss in
gold, ohsft in wheat. For an In
tinitessimal part of the population dross
and chat who would go to the poor
house, penitentiary or insane re-
| treat if there was not drop
of whiskey in the land. Texas should not
be sacrificed. When We prohibit on &C
count of cost, let US prohibit gun pow
der. The firing Of siege gun costs
| 5000 when we come to health. tea and
coffee are injurious. Prohibit these.
The liquor tax Of 100000 will fall
on producers and property holders if the
| amendment is carried.
| Let us leave Texas land Of freedom.
| as we inherited it.
God is the author of all the evil in the
| world.
Shall there BE- evil in the city md the
| Lord hath not done it.-AmOs 3. >.
| make peace and create evil. |. the
Lord, do all these things. Isaiah 10, :.
A WOMAN.
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